A DIAGNOSIS BY FIVE DOCTORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2221, 16 February 1886, Page 2

A DIAGNOSIS BY FIVE DOCTORS.

Ab au illustration of thoold saying that 'Doctors will differ,' the following is related by a Jersey City physician of un« questioned voracity : In the course, of a lecture which ho was delivering before a number of physicians among whom were several old practioneers, he had brought in by the mother a child six months old, . which ho stated was suffering from a verjjj/ peculiar affection, one seldom seen in thaF. country, and he requested five of thephysician3 present each separately to diagnose the case. Tho first gave it:as his ltfedical belief that tho child was buffering, from incipient pneumonia; thesecoud pronoun'ced it to be incipientdiphthoria.; thethird staked his reputation upon its being peritonitis, the fourth called it magrasmus, while the fifth fell back on that medical godsend "malaria." When'they had each made a careful examination, the lecturer said:—"Well, gentlemen, have you any thin? further to say in regard to tho case '{" "Nothing more than mhave already said," was tho reply (t Well," said ho, hiking tho and holding it up before them, " this is a childthat lias never had a day's sickness since its birth, It is the most healthy child that I liave ever seen." Comment is needless.